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Louisville noise rockers Young Widows brought their tour in support of their goth/post-punk-oriented new album Easy Pain back to Saint Vitus, where they played it in full ahead of its release…

Tickets to see Hannibal Buress at Beat Kitchen are on sale now. Tickets to see Josh Ritter at City Winery Chicago go on sale this Friday (3/28) at noon CST…

Young Widows at Saint Vitus Bar in January 2014 (more by Caroline Harrison) As we’ve noted before, the new Young Widows album Easy Pain is more or less publicly available already — they played the whole album straight through in front of a camera-laden audience at Saint Vitus in January, and there’s at least one high-quality video of the set floating around on the internet…

Young Widows @ Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus in January (more by Caroline Harrison) Louisville noise rockers Young Widows are slated to release their third album, Easy Pain, on May 13 via Temporary Residence…

Sasquatch! Music Festival is returning for two weekends in 2014 to The Gorge in Quincy, Washington, and the lineups (which are different both weekends) have just been announced…

Russian Circles @ Ultra Lounge, August 2013 (more by Marfa Capodanno) Russian Circles welcomed their cinematic new album, Memorial, earlier this year via Sargent House and did some touring in support of it…

Kylesa @ MDF 2011 (more by Fred Pessaro) The second annual all-ages Southwest Terror Fest happens at Tucson, AZ’s The Rock from October 10 – 13…

Feathers at ACL Live, Austin 6/21/2013 (more by Tim Griffin) Bonaparte @ SXSW 2013 (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) today in NYC * Channel 101 @ UCB East * Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes * K-X-P, Bonaparte @ Pianos * Booka Shade @ Irving Plaza * Joshua Roman @ The Stone * Demetri Martin @ The Bell House * James Austin Smith @ The Stone * CHVRCHES (DJ Set) @ 285 Kent * Rudimental, Kidnap Kid @ Bowery Ballroom * Aviary, Koko Blue, Pastimer @ Cameo Gallery * Savages, No Bra @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Akiki Pavolka and House of Illusions @ Barbes * Matt Turk, Rebecca Correia @ The Living Room * John Kengla, Kendy Gable @ Pete’s Candy Store * EULA, Virals, Advaeta, Law$uits @ Death By Audio * Feathers, Tempers, Swim Deep @ Mercury Lounge * Fountains of Wayne, Cruise Elroy @ Bowery Electric * Madam West, Panik Politik, Kevin Lynch @ Silent Barn * The Archive, Lord Classic, The Finks @ Saint Vitus Bar * Josiah Leming, One Love, eLLe, Zerena @ Webster Hall * 5 & A Dime, 360, Weekend Money @ Santos Party House * Circa Survive, Minus the Bear, Now, Now @ The Paramount * Fear Of Men, BOYTOY, Beverly, Lemonade (DJ Set) @ Glasslands * Michael Daves, Caitlin Canty, The Jewbdours @ Rockwood Music Hall * Ghosts of Jupiter, Thick As Thieves, Orange Television @ Brooklyn Bowl * The Wilderness of Manitoba, Wooly & The Mammoth @ Mercury Lounge * Follakzoid, The Drunken Foreigner Band, Michael Columbia @ Muchmore’s New York gets quite a few post-SXSW bands tonight: Berlin’s Bonaparte and Denmark’s K-X-P play Pianos; UK indiepop combo Fear of Men are at Glasslands; Austin’s Feathers play with UK act Swim Deep at Mercury Lounge; Virals are at DBA; and Savages are here for a second show, playing Music Hall of Williamsburg. Ticket…

Ben Verellen of Harkonen Harkonen reunited for a trio of shows on the East Coast, including a stop in NYC at Union Pool on June 15th as part of a BV-BBG/Brutal Panda Northside Festival showcase…

, photo Torche @ MHoW two weeks ago I’ve been to three heavy shows in the past two weeks, and if I don’t take a moment to geek out about gear, I’d be leaving out a huge part of what draws me to bands like The Sword, Helms Alee, and Coliseum…